Emerging Location Aware Broadband Wireless Ad Hoc

Contents
Preface ix
PART I TRENDS IN WIRELESS NETWORKS
1. CROSS-LAYER PERFORMANCE IN CELLULAR
WCDMA/3G NETWORKS: MODELLING AND ANALYSIS 3
EKRAM HOSSAIN; University of Manitoba, Canada
VIJAY K. BHARGAVA; University of British Columbia, Canada
2. ALWAYS ON SERVICE INTELLIGENT NETWORK 23
SARIT MUKHERJEE, SANJOY PAUL, KRISHAN SABNANI;
Bell Laboratories Research, USA
43
3. COGNITIVE TRENDS IN MAKING
PETRI MÄHÖNEN; Aachen University, Germany
4. MULTIPLE ANTENNA SYSTEMS: FRONTIER
OF WIRELESS ACCESS 57
E. DEL RE, L. PIERUCCI; University of Florence, Italy
5. FIXED RELAYS FOR NEXT GENERATION
WIRELESS SYSTEMS 71
NORBERT ESSELING, BERNHARD H. WALKE, RALF PABST;
Aachen University, Germany
6. DYNAMIC ENHANCEMENT AND OPTIMAL
93
UTILIZATION OF CDMA NETWORKS
JOSEPH SHAPIRA; Comm&Sens Ltd., Israel
PART II WIRELESS LANS AND ADHOC
NETWORKS
7. ARCHITECTURE AND PROTOTYPING OF AN
802.11 BASED SELF-ORGANIZING HIERARCHICAL
109
ADHOC WIRELESS NETWORK (SOHAN)
S. GANU, L. RAJU, B. ANEPU, S. ZHAO, I. SESKAR,
D. RAYCHAUDHURI; Rutgers University, USA
123
8. VOICE CAPACITY IN IEEE 802.11 NETWORKS
MONCEF ELAOUD; Telcordia Technologies, USA
PRATHIMA AGRAWAL; Auburn University, USA
9. ADHOC WIRLESS NETWORKING USING
141
MOBILE BACKBONES
IZHAK RUBIN, ARASH BEHZAD, HUEI-JIUN JU,
RUNHE ZHANG, XIAOLONG HUANG, YICHEN LIU,
RIMA KHALAF; University of California, USA
10. VERTEX-LINKED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR
163
ADHOC NETWORKS
VICTOR ON-KWOK LI; University of Hong Kong, China
11. PROBABILISTIC METHODS FOR LOCATION
173
ESTIMATION IN WIRELESS NETWORKS
PETRI KONTKANEN, PETRI MYLLYMÄKI, TEEMU ROOS,
HENRY TIRRI, KIMMO VALTONEN, HANNES WETTIG;
Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland
PART III MOBILE WIRELESS INTERNET AND
SATELLITE APPLICATIONS
12. COPING WITH UNCERTAINTY IN MOBILE
189
WIRELESS NETWORKS
SAJAL K DAS; University of Texas, USA
CHRISTOPHER ROSE; Rutgers University, USA
13. ROAMING IN THE GLOBAL WIRELESS INTERNET 205
CHIP ELLIOTT; BBN Technologies, USA
14. PROXY SERVICES FOR THE MOBILE INTERNET 215
VICTOR C.M. LEUNG; University of British Columbia, Canada
15. DEVELOPMENT AND FUTURE APPLICATIONS
OF SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS 231
ERICH LUTZ, HERMANN BISCHL, HARALD ERNST,
FLORIAN DAVID, MATTHIAS HOLZBOCK, AXEL JAHN,
MARKUS WERNER; Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Germany
16. ROLE OF SATELLITES IN MOBILE/WIRELESS SYSTEMS 247
B G EVANS; University of Surrey, United Kingdom
PART IV ENCODING, ALGORITHMS AND
PERFORMANCE
17. APPLYING NEAR SHANNON-LIMIT CODES
TO WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS 263
MUSTAFA EROZ, LIN-NAN LEE, FENG-WEN SUN;
Hughes Network Systems, USA
18. TIME-DIFFUSION CONCEPTS AND PROTOCOL
FOR SENSOR NETWORKS 275
WEILIAN SU; Naval Postgraduate School, USA
IAN F. AKYILDIZ; Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
19. INTERFERENCE, INFORMATION AND
PERFORMANCE IN LINEAR MATRIX MODULATION 289
OLAV TIRKKONEN AND MIKKO KOKKONEN;
Nokia Research Center, Finland
CONTRIBUTORS 305
ABOUT THE EDITORS 323
INDEX 327


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